Author: Rafael Scapin

The author built a local AI-powered mind-mapping system using Obsidian, LM Studio, and custom prompts to turn notes and documents into structured visual maps. This setup offers privacy, control, and flexibility—outperforming online tools like Xmind by allowing deeper customization and …

This guide offers strategies for integrating Generative AI into multimodal teaching, learning, and assessment. It supports educators and educational developers in driving pedagogical innovation amid evolving educational landscapes.

https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194252/1/Output1_an-educators-guide-to-multimodal-learning-and-generative-ai.pdf…

Universities often fail at implementing learning analytics because they treat it as a static IT or enterprise system rather than a dynamic decision-support process. Using situational awareness theory, the author shows that effective analytics must align with teachers’ real contexts, …

After trying out plenty of options, here are the five best Duolingo alternatives that stand out from the rest.

https://www.androidauthority.com/duolingo-alternatives-3608570…

Copilot now has its own virtual character for its voice mode.

https://www.theverge.com/news/804106/microsoft-mico-copilot-ai-assistant-clippy…

Comet, a Chromium-based browser by Perplexity AI, integrates an AI assistant that automates web tasks, summarizes content, organizes tabs, and provides contextual guidance. Unlike Chrome, it acts as an agentic browser, handling emails, research, shopping, and scheduling through natural prompts …

For over 20 years, Google has expanded digital capacity worldwide, and now with the surge in AI demand, they’re launching Google Skills, a unified platform offering nearly 3,000 courses, labs, and credentials from Google Cloud, DeepMind, Grow with Google, and …

The study develops a GenAI-specific literacy framework for education, identifying five key competencies: understanding, applying, evaluating, ethical use, and attitudes toward GenAI. It finds students moderately informed but struggling with prompt design and critical evaluation, highlighting the need for ethics, …

The essay is in crisis as generative AI undermines its legitimacy as a measure of learning. Instead of abandoning it, the paper argues for redefining the essay as an exploratory process rather than a fixed product, aligning assessment with its …

Studying effectively means going beyond cramming to truly retain knowledge for the long term. Writing notes by hand remains one of the best ways to boost memory and understanding.

https://lifehacker.com/family/best-study-techniques…

Chatbots now ace the mathematician’s famous imitation game, but imitation never equalled intelligence.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03386-w…

ChatGPT has broken out of the chatbot. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it is launching a web browser called ChatGPT Atlas, which it says will reimagine the browsing experience from the ground up, now built around a chat-based experience for …

As AI tightens its corporate grip, education risks deepening divides. Openness, not black-box metrics, offers a path to equity, transparency, and shared progress.

https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/open-education-principles-resisting-metrics-ai-black-boxes…

South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.

https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook…